Experts

Cristian Badarinza is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, a Research Fellow of the Institute of Real Estate Studies, and a Network Associate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. His research interests are in the areas of real estate finance, household finance and financial economics. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Economics from Goethe University. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a Research Assistant in the Monetary Policy Research Division of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main. His research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and Annual Review of Economics.

Alexandra’s general research addresses topics on social exclusion and pro-social behaviour. Using economic experiments, she mainly studies group dynamics in social dilemma situations focusing on social exclusion as a form of punishment and its effects on individual behaviour.

Current research interests are the Black Death of 1348-9 and subsequent epidemics; their social, economic and cultural impact on fourteenth-century England; and their long-term contribution to England’s subsequent precocious economic performance.

Vimal Balasubramaniam is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London. His main areas of research interest are household finance, behavioural finance and empirical asset pricing. He has a BA in Economics from University of Madras, a Masters in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore, and a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford.

Jose is the Associate Dean and Professor in the Business and Economics School at Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City. His research interests lie at the intersection of law, development, and health economics. He has published on the effects of crime on development, women´s empowerment, and mental health. He has served as an external consultant for the Mexican Stock Exchange, the World Bank and Mexico´s Government Accountability Office.

Nicolò Bandera is a PhD student in Economics at the University of St Andrews. His main areas of research are macroeconomics and monetary economics. He is also particularly interested in China’s monetary policy. Before joining St Andrews, he worked at Eurizon SLJ Capital in a macro research role.